Australian Billionaire Wants To Build Jurassic Park-Style Resort

For those not familiar with the CV of mining billionaire Clive Palmer, you could be forgiven for thinking this sounds a bit out there, but sources close to the man himself are reporting that Palmer wants to clone a dinosaur from DNA and release it in his resort in Coolum, Queensland. Welcome...to Jurassic Palmer.

The Sunshine Coast Daily reports that Palmer has been in contact with the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep

Now remember that this is all coming from "a source close to Palmer" so it might all be bunk, but this is the man who wants to rebuild the Titanic. I'd believe anything at this point.

If it is true, though, we could have a major incident on our hands. Cloning dinosaurs all starts with "ooh" and "aah", but then it always ends with running and screaming, as we know far too well. Life finds a way. [Sunshine Coast Daily]

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David Guest

Jul 31, 2012, 8:27am

First the titanic now Jurassic Park - Clive Palmer really needs to lay off those 90's era DVD movies!

I reckon he should spend his money building an actual Death Star or
Delorean. If not them, then at least a hyperdrive (for hyperspace
of course) or light sabres. Why build something that can eat you
later on?

Palmer gives us April 1st all year long...
It is funny though - the American super-rich start charities to eliminate malaria (Gates / Buffett).
As David said, Clive wants to recreate 90s movies that, as I recall, ended fairly poorly for most of the cast...

Good call. Bring back some Australian Mega-fauna. Studies suggest that they went extinct when man first arrived on the continent. Giant killer Kangaroos? Wombats as big as cars? What could possibly go wrong?

Looks like it might be time to sell off stocks in anything run by Clive Palmer. Because if he actually starts spending money, he could do quite a bit of damage to the stock price before getting kicked out of a position of decision making..

Well Alan Bond gave us America's cup and the most expensive
painting ever (at the time) with the money meant to be paid for Van
Gough's Irises. And then all the scandal etc. Palmer has a lot to
compete with if he wants to be as big, bold and brash as our 80s
ultra-rich. At the moment he's just a drunk moron spouting pub-born
fantasy.

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